Monday, December 16, 2019
The movie (which had the worst opening weekend of any Clint Eastwood-directed film) is Eastwood in chair-ranting mode, and then there's the issue of the lie that a reporter from the Atlanta …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]Organists are not happy not to have seen pipes in the renderings of the remodeled Geffen Hall. They see it "as a chance to right a historical wrong, especially at a time when many of the wor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]And literally no one who has ever bought a ticket through them is sad. But more seriously: "The impending civil action… is expected to claim that Live Nation violated terms of its 2010 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 15, 2019
Not nudity (though that may, of course, be involved), but naked emotional truth. "Authenticity can't exist without artistry. Truth in life doesn't automatically morph into truth on the page.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]The majority of music students in the US don't listen to classical or "Western art" music at all, except in classes. For those who teach music theory, questions emerge: "How can we justify o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]Sifton was also an author, including of a memoir that cemented her father, Reinhold Niebuhr, as the author of the Serenity Prayer. The authors she edited " burnished, as The NYT puts it " in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]It's not just a coincidence or an accident: "Sondheim references and homages are hardly new. While there happens to be a bit of a pile-up at the moment, that's because Sondheim's songs have …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]Yannick Nézet-Séguin says that after many years of wanting to conduct the Mass, he decided one day when he was 10 to play-act at conducting Mozart's Symphony No. 40. That day, everything c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]There are really only two rules, says a man who knows a particularly painful story of an inscribed book that had been passed on. "'The first is, always save a receipt' " the reason being, if…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]Jones, who played the Anansi-inspired character Mr. Nancy, posted the video to Twitter. He said that new showrunner Charles Eglee, who is white, "thinks that Mr. Nancy's angry get-shit-done …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]Timberg was a beloved and ferocious reader, writer, and arts lover. He was a Los Angeles Times reporter for years "before writing Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class, a 2015 boo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]After WWII, "the past century was undoubtedly an American century. … America was positioned as the global emblem of progress, liberty and modernity. This chimera was largely achieved throu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]Breaking down his award-winning "A Thousand Mountains, a Million Streams" " and hearing from the composer himself: "It's a challenge to see myself as a vessel, as an imaginative and creative…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]The magazine, an icon of culture, "played a critical role in forming the culture and image of lowriding, its lifestyle and aesthetics. Particularly popular among Mexican Americans, the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]The boom in streaming has led to massive content demands " and nowhere is that more obvious than "in Denmark, where thanks to years of rising demand, there are many more critically-praised s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]Sure, for those who love the Regency era, nothing has changed (though the politics certainly have). But for contemporary books, writers must figure how to navigate the ever-changing technolo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]Zola, the wedding planner site that was running the ads, was not OK with the channel's response to the anti-gay freakout from a notoriously homophobic group. "'All kisses, couples and marria…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM[SHARE]Can the Recording Academy's new plan change that? " Los Angeles Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM[SHARE]Oh, well, why not dance, listen to music, and party into your 70s? After all, Mick Jagger still does it. "For those who do keep dancing, it can be much more than just a night out. What start…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM[SHARE]In The New York Times' dance coverage, this week's Instagram video hashtagged #SpeakingAboutDance features solos, duets, trios, and ensemble work to pianist Simone Dinnerstein's performance …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM[SHARE]Sinéad Gleeson, an Irish Book Award-winning author, says that reading offers connection and perhaps an escape " unless you're slogging through the "great American" canon. " The Guardian (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM[SHARE]Steve Lazarides also recalls the early days, including the day Banksy strapped a helium-filled sex doll to a McDonald's-branded balloon and released it into the sky. Many different police of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AM[SHARE]Actors and audiences alike participated in protests against Viktor Orban's new law around who controls theatre funding. "The change comes as Mr. Orban's government has become increasingly…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 9, 2019
It's a candy Venice. A Venice of candy and gingerbread, royal icing ("basically like glue") and buttercream for decoration. And when roofs collapse? The teams soldier, or solder (with butter…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM[SHARE]And Greta Gerwig's new movie version of it makes an attempt to reflect that. "We may these days … be surrounded by books containing extraordinary girls " Lyra, Hermione, Katniss " but it i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM[SHARE]Let's go deep: "You are not a hopeless philistine if you find this all a bit foolish. Foolishness, and the deflating sensation that a culture that once encouraged sublime beauty now only per…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM[SHARE]Lisa Taddeo thinks her success is partially luck, and partially that she really digs into the nuances of women's desire, and their relationships with men, at least before the Weinstein scand…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM[SHARE]Pen Parentis has lasted for more than a decade in a literary world that is decidedly unfriendly to working parents. "'The way you hear it is in the people who don't have kids and when you sa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM[SHARE]Architecture critic Rowan Moore is not thrilled with the thoughtless, crass commercialism filling Trafalgar Square. "It is not the presence of the market, precisely, that's the problem, so m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM[SHARE]That's not about radical parents or radical kids " it's about changing theatre at its roots to reflect the reality of working parents in the industry. Not surprisingly, parents have some ide…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM[SHARE]And not just any blog is closing, but Feministing, one of the only remaining feminist blogs from the heyday of the 2000s. One of the site's former editors says, "It was unclear how we could …
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